Adoção: conquistas legais e a busca pelo lugar da criança

Abstract

This work aims, at first, to evaluate the legal framework that deals with the adoption in Brazil, in a second time, turn to understand how the adoptants were treated, and how slowly, children and teenagers are gaining greater prominence as Active subjects, who can participate more fully in the process. Next, it seeks to understand the perspectives of children and adolescents in the adoption process, highlighting the prerogatives brought by the Statute of the Child and adolescent, the laws 12.010/09 and 13.507/17, as the necessity of the stage of coexistence. This is a bibliographic research that analyzed books, articles, theses and dissertations, as well as the material available on the Internet. Despite noting that the new laws of adoption in Brazil have brought significant advances to the field of adoption, however, the problems related to it tend to remain, and the Agency of Children and adolescents is still poorly considered.